The Dark Knight Rises You Have My Permission To Lounge

[BatLobster]

I still need to play AO and AK. AO first, because I still don't have a next-gen.

Truthfully I got a bit burnt out on the series after Arkham City, but I've heard enough good things about the story of AO that I'm probably gonna check it out soon.

 

[Kane52630]

If I had to rank them...

Arkham Aslyum
Arkham Knight
Arkham City
Arkham Origins

 

[Travesty]

That's my exact order, too.

 

[Greens]

That's my order as well.

 

[Reek]

i still haven't play Knight, but after all I have heard I dont see how it tops City

 

[Spider-Aziz]

My PC can't handle Arkham Knight, and I don't have a new gen system.
I rank the games like this:

City
Origins
Asylum

One thing I hate about Origins is the need to perform the tasks given (Worst Nightmare, and stuff) in the precise order given for a task to count, and doing two tasks at once doesn't count, even if one is directly below the one that needs to happen.
City did a great thing by giving players more freedom, something Origins should have taken from.

 

[batfreakforever]

I still need to play AO and AK. AO first, because I still don't have a next-gen.

Truthfully I got a bit burnt out on the series after Arkham City, but I've heard enough good things about the story of AO that I'm probably gonna check it out soon.

How can you be burnt out from playing Batman?
and I thought you would've had all the games?
Still, enjoy them when you play them.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Same way I got burnt out of Assassin's Creed halfway through Revelations.

 

[titansupes]

I still haven't bothered to finish AK honestly... I was enjoying it fine, but four games of more-or-less the same stuff, there's definitely going to be burnouts (especially when they introduce the Batmobile! #funwithpuns).

I can't remember where I'm up to. Somewhere not far after Ivy's big tree comes out of the ground.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Arkham City was a massive jump from Asylum in gameplay, made its predecessor look like a demo in comparison.
Origins is mostly a copy paste of City, which I think another game developer should have done with one of their games, they've done it before.

 

[The Joker]

I still need to play AO and AK. AO first, because I still don't have a next-gen.

Truthfully I got a bit burnt out on the series after Arkham City, but I've heard enough good things about the story of AO that I'm probably gonna check it out soon.

You'll love AO. Easily the best of the games. It's got the best of everything. The brilliant gameplay of AC, the best story and characterizations, Christmas heavy snowfall Gotham, and the best character designs.

AK.....it's a good game but the most flawed of the games by a long margin. The story is weak, the side missions are mostly dull. The Batmobile really brings the game down in it's over use and tedious missions. The villains are largely wasted.

i still haven't play Knight, but after all I have heard I dont see how it tops City

It doesn't. It's the weakest of all the games.

 

[Snow Queen]

Origins and Asylum would be my top two easily, I'm mixed on both City and Knight. City's story felt rather like a chore at points but the gameplay improvements were wonderful and they did a good job with several segments of the story even if how you got there didn't quite work. Knight's a gorgeous, really well polished game with great segments but that Batmobile is a slog, the handling of the villains outside of Ivy and maybe Scarecrow was pretty awful, Arkham Knight is one of the dullest new villains in recent years and the story is a mess that seems to think it's a lot more smart than it is.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Snow Queen, I love that shot. That's the kind of playfulness the dour DC movies have been sorely lacking.

 

[Decepticonus]

Asylum was good, very big, great and ground breaking. Finally a good Batman/comic book game. You could argue Batman (1989) on NES is a good Batman/comic book game but it was basically Ninja Gaiden but dressed up at Batman.
Then City blew it out of the water. My favorite is still Origins though. I love the Christmas theme, design and visuals. I love the story in how the first encounter between Joker & Batman is a huge spectacle, not just some caper or Saturday morning cartoon. In addition, I loved the use of lesser known characters like Lady Shiva, Firefly and so forth. Plus, I'm a Black Mask fan and fan of Deathstroke. However, Origins was a bit bugged in a few areas, making City better. But Origins didn't have god awful 90's designs from City luckily.
Knight, I honestly do not like. I want to like it but I am stuck at the scene where you outrun Arkham Knight. Parts of this game are very hard, making this game quite a pain to play and all around not enjoyable. Plus, there is too much Batmobile. I loved it finally got included BUT the game is centered and revolved around the Batmobile so much. Why does Batman bother? He could just sit in the bat-cave, drive it by remote and end this entire story in like 10 minutes. The Knight himself gets annoying fast. No character, shows up all "nanananana I know you but you don't know me, I'm going to kill you. Oops, well I will call you next time." I like how dark the story is though and where it's going BUT the Knight is annoying and could probably be done without him.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Asylum was good, very big, great and ground breaking. Finally a good Batman/comic book game. You could argue Batman (1989) on NES is a good Batman/comic book game but it was basically Ninja Gaiden but dressed up at Batman.

It made that game good, but man is it hard.
I prefer the Genesis game.

 

[Decepticonus]

It made that game good, but man is it hard.
I prefer the Genesis game.

Not saying it was bad, but it didn't have its own identity. First time playing Asylum there was a sense of "yes, this how a Batman game should feel, play and look". Most of the time they took w/e was popular like a 2-D scroller and slapped Batman on it. Hence, comic book games were nothing to write home about, at least not to general gamers but the Arkham series was for both die hard fans and die hard gamers.

 

[The Joker]

The best Batman games pre the Arkham ones in my opinion were Batman Returns and the BTAS based one The Adventures of Batman and Robin. Both on the SNES.

 

[Travesty]

B89 on NES. It's my favorite to this day.

 

[Decepticonus]

The best Batman games pre the Arkham ones in my opinion were Batman Returns and the BTAS based one The Adventures of Batman and Robin. Both on the SNES.

I still really want to play those. Anyone ever play that Batmobile arcade game? Has every batmobile from the Adam West one all the way up to the Tumbler.

 

[Travesty]

Yeah, I played it last year. You can even play as Bane's Tumbler, too. And there's also some flying sections where you control the Batwing.

 

[AnneFan]

I still need to play AO and AK. AO first, because I still don't have a next-gen.

Truthfully I got a bit burnt out on the series after Arkham City, but I've heard enough good things about the story of AO that I'm probably gonna check it out soon.

Origins is my favourite. I hope WB Montreal make a sequel. Arkham Knight wasn't as good as I hoped, but it's still a good game with good points. The Season of Infamy DLC raised my overall opinion of it again recently. My favourite non Arkham Batman games are Vengeance, Rise of Sin Tzu and Batman Begins. The Lego Batman games are also good quality.

 

[titansupes]

^ The BB game was cool. Very much a proto-Arkham, and from memory, has the Bale's best Batvoice.

 

[BatmanBeyond]

^ The BB game was cool. Very much a proto-Arkham, and from memory, has the Bale's best Batvoice.

'TELL ME ABOUT THE RABBITS!!'

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Batman Begins is pretty good, and yeah, it feels like a proto Arkham, especially looking at Knight Batmobile sections.

I love the LEGO Batman trilogy.

 

[I Am The Knight]

'TELL ME ABOUT THE RABBITS!!'

Bale - "Tell me about the rabbits!!"

VO Person - "Can you sound more threatening?"

Bale - "TELL ME ABOUT THE RABBITS!!"



I knew Bale had reprised his role but I didn't remember that Caine and the others also reprised theirs. They really got basically the main cast to do voice overs for the game, except for Oldman. Not bad. I never played that game but now I wish I had.